This month, Google told me that I only walked 3 miles! I purposely leave location tracking and stuff on my phone. ¹ What a sad, low number! Maybe it is better if I virtue signal to Google.

So, this month, I'm doing an experiment. As much as I can, even walking around the house, I'm going to leave my phone in my pocket. We'll see how good Google's location tracking is; will it catch these relatively small movements (at the same address, but moving around within that location)?

What's in store

It kinda feels like being in a giant store all the time. When you visit Target or something, you can expect cameras everywhere watching to make sure people don't steal merchandise, cause trouble with employees, etc. Likewise, the store obviously has a goal to sell you stuff.

In this way, I have no problem with surveillance and cameras and stuff per se. However, I think that it is not unreasonable for people to want private spaces in addition to public spaces. When private spaces are constantly invaded by activitites like soliciting, marketing, etc. this is no good.

Practically, each individual can decide what spaces they think should be private and make rules/policies/schedules to keep it this way. People may come up with rules like,

• No politics talk at the dinner table
• No phones out when friends meet
• Don't watch YouTube videos until 8 PM; go to sleep by midnight

Especially at first, it takes discipline to do these things. Strong leadership is needed to bring changes to groups as well—e.g. parents must be able to follow these rules themselves so children can see why they are so.